[Esd-l] Macs appledouble crap and html-trap.procmail

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Glenn Valenta (HDNet) wrote:

> Somehow, the html-trap.procmail script is mangling the mac
> appledouble portion of the attachment to such a point that
> graphical e-mail clients (netscape and IE) only see them as one
> attachment instead of two.
> 
> Anybody else have this problem?  Is there a workaround? (other
> than not allowing macs on our mailserver)

The problem appears to be the MIME type and x-mac-type mangling. This
behavior is by design.

You may want to remove DOC and XLS from your local mangled extensions
list, especially for locally-originated email. Doing this will not
prevent the attachment scanning, but will prevent their names and MIME
types from being mangled.

See the configuration page on the website for examples of how to do
this.

> X-Content-Security: [gw1] original Content-Type was application/applefile;
> Content-Type: APPLICATION/DEFANGED; name="ForGlenn.25931DEFANGED-doc"
> 
> X-Content-Security: [gw1] original Content-Type was application/msword;
> X-Content-Security: [gw1] removed x-mac-creator=4D535744; x-mac-type=5738424E;

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